Tusk Tusk

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Tusk Tusk

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This lesson plan for teachers of primary students aged 9 to 10 years old at level A1 explores the themes of racism, prejudice and tolerance to children. Students will make a poster on elephants and give a presentation of the story.

Introduction

This is a series of activities and related worksheets for you to download and use with the storybook Tusk Tusk. It forms part of the Promoting diversity through children’s literature series, produced by the British Council Teaching Centre in Paris.

Age group

9-10 years old

Level

A1

About the story Tusk Tusk is excellent book to introduce racism, prejudice and tolerance to children. It is a story about a time when elephants came in two colours: black or white. They loved all other creatures - but each set wanted to exterminate the elephants that were not the same as themselves. Peace-loving elephants ran and hid in the deepest jungle, and battle commenced. The war-mongers succeeded in annihilating each other. For a long time it seemed that there were no elephants in the world at all, not of any colour. But then the descendants of the peace-loving ones emerged from the jungle, who were now all grey.

Language areas

Numbers

African and Asian elephants

Adjectives and opposites

Comparatives

Diversity themes

Developing awareness of similarities and differences

Developing tolerance

Becoming aware of racism and prejudice

Developing curiosity

Main outcomes

Doing a project using the Internet and producing a poster on elephants